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Editorial Page, San Francisco CHRONICLE
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mattachine REVIEW
"This is a matter of grave concern for every parent," Russell L. Wolden, assessor and candidate for mayor, declared today. "It exposes teen-agers to possible contact and contamination in a city admittedly overrun by deviates.
"For a city administration to permit this situation to exist is nothing less than scandalous.
"The whole rotten mess cries for investigation." Sex Deviates Soar
Mattachine moved its national headquarters to San Fran. cisco.in 1957, apparently seeking a more "beneficial climate" for its activities.
It has found such a climate.
The number of sex deviates in this city has soared by the thousands since then, while other communities in this area have virtually eliminated them,
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Under the regime of Christopher, his police commission and police chief, the number of tenderloin bars and other establishments which cater exclusively to homosexuals also has increased enormously.
Out of 100 places surveyed in the downtown district, 27 were found to be hangouts of this kind.
They include bars, night clubs, after-hours spots that run until six in the morning, several hotels, steam bath establishments, and cafes.
No Neighborhood Immune
They are to be found principally in the tenderloin, Fillmore and waterfront districts, but no neighborhood is immune. Some of the bath establishments are used as houses of male assignation.
All of the places are "pickup joints" where homosexuals are on the prowl for "dates" and new contacts.
Some cab drivers steer customers to these places and get commissions on them from the doormen or managers.
Inside can be seen crowds of young men, carrying on homosexual flirtations.
They move from these places to nearby theaters where they accost normal young men and boys on the street.
Cancer Is Growing
Police wander in and out of these places every night and should be perfectly conversant with what is going on.
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Yet this unsavory wicked situation is allowed to fester and spread like a cancerous growth on the body of San Francisco. To return to the Mattachine Society The transfer of its national headquarters from Los Ange les to the more friendly climate of this city becomes more sig nificant on examination of its policies and purposes.
These are set forth in the organization's constitution and by-laws and in a brochure it has issued under the title of "Mattachine Society Today."
Secret Society
The latter says the society started out as the Mattachine Foundation, Inc., but admits that this was a "secret and nondemocratic" society. It is still a clandestine organization, except for the disclosure of its officers as required to get a state charter.
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